Merge pull request #9408 from pacien/custom-profiledir

Add support for custom profile directory
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J. Ryan Stinnett 2019-04-10 10:45:06 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ Desktop app configuration
To run multiple instances of the desktop app for different accounts, you can launch the executable with the `--profile` argument followed by a unique identifier, e.g `riot-web --profile Work` for it to run a separate profile and not interfere with the default one. To run multiple instances of the desktop app for different accounts, you can launch the executable with the `--profile` argument followed by a unique identifier, e.g `riot-web --profile Work` for it to run a separate profile and not interfere with the default one.
Alternatively, a custom location for the profile data can be specified using the `--profile-dir` flag followed by the desired path.
To change the config.json for the desktop app, create a config file which will be used to override values in the config which ships in the package: To change the config.json for the desktop app, create a config file which will be used to override values in the config which ships in the package:
+ `%APPDATA%\$NAME\config.json` on Windows + `%APPDATA%\$NAME\config.json` on Windows
+ `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME\$NAME\config.json` or `~/.config/$NAME/config.json` on Linux + `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME\$NAME\config.json` or `~/.config/$NAME/config.json` on Linux

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@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ const Store = require('electron-store');
// migrating to mitigate any risk of it being used maliciously. // migrating to mitigate any risk of it being used maliciously.
let migratingOrigin = false; let migratingOrigin = false;
if (argv['profile']) { if (argv['profile-dir']) {
app.setPath('userData', argv['profile-dir']);
} else if (argv['profile']) {
app.setPath('userData', `${app.getPath('userData')}-${argv['profile']}`); app.setPath('userData', `${app.getPath('userData')}-${argv['profile']}`);
} }